Overview
- Qatar reported detaining two cells totaling 10 suspects it says worked for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, with seven assigned to spy on vital and military sites and three tasked with sabotage using drones.
- Authorities said the suspects confessed during interrogation and that investigators seized maps, facility coordinates, communications gear and other technical equipment.
- Qatar’s Defense Ministry said hundreds of Iranian weapons were launched toward its airspace since Saturday, and confirmed one ballistic missile struck the Al-Udeid base without casualties while another was intercepted.
- Qatari fighters downed two Iranian Su-24 bombers near the country in the first such air-to-air engagement by Qatar, an action acknowledged by U.S. Gen. Dan Caine at the Pentagon.
- Western diplomatic sources claimed Qatar carried out strikes inside Iran, a report Doha rejects as it asserts self-defense, while Gulf and partner states issued a joint condemnation of Iran’s missile and drone attacks and the U.S. ordered some embassy staff to depart several Gulf posts.